firkin

The annual event sees selected town residents taking turns to run through the streets carrying burning wooden firkins in an "ancient rite of passage", Andrew Wade, president of the Tar Barrels Committee, said.

He uses an antique wooden firkin once used for storing flour and sugar to sit on that the older French speaking duck hunters call a “bedon.”

The brewery has several hundred firkins — small casks full of finished beer — with dispensing devices called “beer engines” for serving on premises.

She was—sweet mercy in a firkin—she was a gruesome little baggage.

Breweries from all over the area bring firkins of their beer to the Penn Quarter brewpub for a night of tasting.